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Good morning Grandpa Chan

Read about Grandpa Chan. Each line has a mistake - an error, a missing word or an extra word. Try to correct the errors. Do you know anyone like Grandpa Chan?

1. You can seeing Grandpa Chan in Aberdeen.

2. He gets up at early and takes his bird down to the

3. waterfront at where he chats to his many old

4. friends. He enjoys a game of chess. It don't

5. matter he is playing or watching others - he still

6. likes working out all the moves. He born in

7. Aberdeen in 1933. He has had a hardly life.

8. During the Japanese Occupation he rarely to had

9. enough to eat. He did not get much of schooling,

10. but soon he could becoming a fisherman.

11. He could tell a lot of scary stories about

12. sea and its sudden moods. A few of his friend

13. had watery graves, and him and his boat nearly

14. went on the bottom in one typhoon. Grandpa

15. Chan was a stricter but good father and made

16. ensure that his four children had a good education

17. and better opportunities that he had. He shakes

18. off his head with amazement when he thinks

19. of all the changes that have been taken place

20. during his life's time. When he was young, the South

21. China Sea seemed full of fishes, but now he hears

22. it's getting harder and harder to getting a decent

23. catch. Still, life is much more better. His children

24. have comfortable homes, take holidays oversea and

25. rush around making for money. Even he has a mobile

26. phone so Grandma can tell him when to come to

27. home. Grandpa's greatest joy is his grandson - in the

28. fact, he hopes he had more than one. The boy

29. is so clever and tries to teach him about computer.

30. Since his retirement, Grandpa has become interesting

31. in horse racing. When he was younger, he use to say

32. it was bad. He had known quite a few men whom

33. couldn't support their living because of their

34. gambling losses, but nowadays he allows him

35. a small bet occasionally just for the funs of it.

36. He also enjoys his foods and looks forward to

37. Sunday dim sum. Grandpa is become a bit

38. slower; he sleeps more, and he is a bit hard for

39. hearing, but for the most part he is health.

40. That's unlucky because he hates having to

41. see the doctor. Look, he's getting up now. Where

42. he going - oh, to McDonald's for eating breakfast.

43. That's something his grandson has teached him.

Answers:

1. can see - can + bare infinitive

2. delete at - early is an adverb

3. delete at - where is an adverb

4. doesn't - singular agreement

5. matter if/whether - indirect question

6. He was born - passive

7. hard - adjective

8. delete to - no sense

9. delete of - much + noun

10. became

11. about the sea - definite

12. friends - a few of + plural

13. he and his boat - subject

14. to the bottom - phrase = sink

15. strict - no comparison

16. sure - adjective

17. change that to than - comparison

18. delete off

19. delete been - take place cannot be passive

20. lifetime - one word

21. fish - uncountable

22. to get - infinitive

23. delete more - double comparative

24. overseas - correct spelling

25. delete for - to make money

26. delete the second to - not used with home

27. delete the - in fact

28. change hopes to wishes [or he hopes he will have]

29. computers [or the computer]

30. interested - common confusion

31. used - past tense

32. who - subject

33. change living to families - earn a living, support people

34. himself - reflexive

35. fun - uncountable

36. food - uncountable

37. is becoming [or has become]

38. hard of - idiom, hard of hearing, a bit deaf

39. healthy - adjective

40. lucky - sense

41. Where's/is - verb needed

42. delete eating - verb not necessary

43. taught - correct past participle of teach

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